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• Alexander Jacobus Lassche († 1981)
• Rita Ligtenberg († 1994)
• Irene Mireille Kleijwegt., Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• Anna Maria Francisca Hubertina Bosten (73), Kaalheide
• Anna Asinith Lewis (69), Concrete, Skagit, Washington, Verenigde Staten
• Arendje de Langen (90), Katwijk
• Augustinus Bernardus Kusters (81), Baarle-Nassau
• Antonie Bilman (92), Hellendoorn, 7447, Nederland
• Aloysius Gerhardus Welling (51)
• Adriana Theodora van de Griendt (69), Waalwijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Hamers (69), Vaals,, Limburg, Nederland
• Anna Cornelia van de Weijgert (59), Breda
• Audrey Imogene Roe (65), Vincennes, Knox, Indiana

• 1975 » London Fletcher, American football player
• 1975 » Pretinha, Brazilian footballer
• 1976 » Ed Cota, American basketball player
• 1976 » Kevin Garnett, American basketball player
• 1977 » Brandon Inge, American baseball player
• 1977 » Manuel Almunia, Spanish footballer
• 1977 » Natalia Oreiro, Uruguayan singer-songwriter and actress
• 1977 » Wouter Hamel, Dutch singer and guitarist
• 1978 » Dave Bus, Dutch footballer
• 1978 » Marcus Bent, English footballer

• 1963 » Walter Russell, American painter, sculptor, and author (b. 1871)
• 1969 » Coleman Hawkins, American saxophonist and clarinet player (b. 1901)
• 1971 » Ogden Nash, American poet (b. 1902)
• 1978 » Albert Kivikas, Estonian-Swedish journalist and author (b. 1898)
• 1980 » Joseph Schull, Canadian playwright and historian (b. 1906)
• 1983 » Jean Rey, Belgian lawyer and politician, 2nd President of the European Commission (b. 1902)
• 1984 » John Betjeman, English poet and academic (b. 1906)
• 1986 » Jimmy Lyons, American saxophonist (b. 1931)
• 1987 » James Tiptree, Jr., American psychologist and author (b. 1915)
• 1989 » Yiannis Papaioannou, Greek composer and educator (b. 1910)

1. Jan
2. Jeroen
3. Johannes
4. Martijn
5. Peter
6. Richard
7. Mark
8. Michael
9. Robert
10. David
11. Hendrik
12. Pieter
13. Dennis
14. Marcel
15. Cornelis
16. Steven

1. Maria
2. Monique
3. Esther
4. Johanna
5. Sandra
6. Wendy
7. Cindy
8. Linda
9. Yvonne
10. Patricia
11. Jennifer
12. Anna
13. Bianca
14. Marieke
15. Elisabeth
16. Jessica

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 13.8 million citizens.
• January 8 » Three bombs explode in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union, within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group.
• May 17 » Nolan Bushnell opened the first Chuck E. Cheese's in San Jose, California.
• July 4 » The George Jackson Brigade plants a bomb at the main power substation for the Washington state capitol in Olympia, in solidarity with a prison strike at the Walla Walla State Penitentiary Intensive Security Unit.
• July 24 » End of a four-day-long Libyan–Egyptian War.
• August 3 » Tandy Corporation announces the TRS-80, one of the world's first mass-produced personal computers.
• August 10 » In Yonkers, New York, 24-year-old postal employee David Berkowitz ("Son of Sam") is arrested for a series of killings in the New York City area over the period of one year.

The temperature on May 19, 1977 was between 8.3 °C and 19.5 °C and averaged 14.1 °C. There was 12.3 hours of sunshine (78%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.